Quotations+Assignment


 * 1) ** Select three quotations to respond to with each being one page long. One per term is expected. **
 * 2) ** Supply one quotation of your own finding with a one page response. **

This is an ongoing assignment throughout the year. Quotations will be added throughout the year. Copy your selection to paste at the top of your response. If you discover a great quotation do part 2 as well as share it with us so we can share it with all.

“The second point is that people need to be needed. Think about it. You like to be asked for your input; you want to give it. Helping someone else makes you feel like a good person. Everyone wants to feel that he or she is a good person, whether or not this is so. The need to be needed is a powerful impulse, so be aware that when you accept someone’s help, you are also giving back something.”

//__ Morrie: In His Own Words __// // Morrie Schwartz // // Walker and Company: New York, 1996, p.75 //

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“There’s this little wave, a he-wave who’s bobbing up and down in the ocean off the shore, having a great time. All of a sudden, he realizes he’s going to crash into the shore. In this big wide ocean, he’s mow moving toward the shore, and he’ll be annihilated. ‘My God, what’s going to happen to me?’ he says, a sour and despairing look on his face. Along comes a female wave, bobbing up and down, having a great time. And the female wave says to the male wave, ‘Why are you so depressed?’ The male says, ‘You don’t understand. You’re going to crash into that shore, and you’ll be nothing.’ She says, ‘You don’t understand you’re not a wave; you’re part of the ocean.”

//__ Morrie: In His Own Words __// // Morrie Schwartz // // Walker and Company: New York 1996, Pg 126-127 //

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“I mean your brother’s issue and troubles, love him though you do, are not your responsibility or yours to shoulder and solve. In fact, you can’t solve or own them. You won’t be doing him any favors and may just enable him to keep harming himself and screwing up. Same thing with Boyd. Be his friend, but don’t take on his baggage. I know that’s easier said than done, especially when you’ve got a kind heart. But try to resist the caped crusader instinct. You’ve got your own closet to sort through, Anise. A lot of rooting around in your thoughts and feelings if we’re ever going to lick this.’ ‘But Marcel…Boyd…They need me.’ ‘You need you, Anise, first and foremost. If you divert your attention always elsewhere you’re never going to focus on the hand work of looking into mirrors.’ ‘I hate mirrors.’ ‘Of course you do. You’re an anorexic.’

//__Gravity Journal__// // Gail Sidonie Sobat // // Great Plains Publication: Winnipeg, 2008, p.79 //




 * “It felt like anything they could say to one another would be less true than the silence, but that realization hurt.” **


 * //__ Someone comes to town, Someone leaves town __//**
 * // Cory Doctorow, p.94 //**

* ...'Sami, if you don't speak up, the office won't act and I can't help you. But if you do, at the very least, Harrison and the others will have a note in their files. ' 'A lot of good that'll do me, biking home. Or at the mall. Or anytime I'm alone. They'll get me big-time. Where will you be then, sir?' His eyes cloud. 'Life can be tough, Sami. But hiding only makes things worse. In the end, no matter how hard you try, you can't hide from yourself. Trust me.' He gets into his car. 'See you in class.' And he's gone.

__**// Borderline //**__
 * // Alan Stratton, p.101 //**
 * “Your mind could be a country..., and those around you made foreigners by an unshared memory.” **
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 * “You can’t sit around and wait for the storm to be over. You’ve got to learn how to dance in the rain.” **
 * //Unknown// **



“Chris Langan, by contrast, had only the bleakness of Bozeman, and a home dominated by an angry, drunken step father. ‘[Jack] Langan did this to all of us,’ said Mark. ‘We all have a true resentment of authority.’ That was the lesson Langan learned from his childhood: distrust authorityand be independent. He never had a parent teach him on the way to the doctor how to speak up for himself, or how to reason and negotiate with those in positions of authority. He didn’t learn entitlement. He learned constraint. It may seem like a small thing, but it was a crippling handicap in navigating the world... “I couldn’t get any financial aid either,’ Mark went on. ‘We just had zero knowledge, of the process. How to apply. The form.. Checkbooks. It was not our environment.’ “If Christopher had been born into a wealthy family, if he was the son of a doctor who was well connected in some major market, I guarantee you he would have been one of those guys you read about, knocking back PhD’s at seventeen,’ His brother Jeff says. ‘It’s the culture you find yourself in that determines that. The issue with Chris is that he was always too bored to actually sit there and listen to his teachers. If someone had recognized his intelligence and if he was from a family where there was some kind of value on education, they would have made sure he wasn’t bored.’ //__Outliers__// // Malcom Gladwell // //New York: Little, Brown and Company, p. 110//



"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter." // Dr. Suess //




 * “I HAD A FRAGMENT. The acting part of Mr.Watts. So, what about it? The fact he enjoyed acting gnaws away with its question of sincerity. Especially when I think of Mr.Watts’ classroom gestures. The stare to the back of the room. His eyes rolling up to the ceiling. The studied pose of a man thinking and considering. Was this Mr.Watts, or an actor playing Mr.Watts the school teacher? Who was it that we kids saw in the classroom? A man who genuinely thought //Great Expectations// to be the greatest novel by the greatest writer in the nineteenth century? Or a man left with only a morsel who will claim it the best meal of his life? **
 * I suppose it is possible to be all of these things. To sort of fall out of who you are into another, as well as journey back to some essential sense of self. We only see what we see. I have no idea of the man June Watts knew. I only know the man who took us kids by the hand and taught us how to reimagine the world, and to see the possibility of change, to welcome it into our lives. Your ship could come in at any time, and that ship could take many forms. Your Mr. Jaggers might even turn out to be a log. **
 * I had hoped to get more from my visit to Mrs. Watts. I guess I was hop **
 * ing to heave heard stories. I had the scrapbook, and it answered the mystery about the red nose. Otherwise, Mr. Watts was as elusive as ever. He was whatever he needed to be, what we asked him to be. Perhaps there are lives like that--they pour into whatever space we have made ready for them to fill. We needed a teacher, Mr. Watts became that teacher. We needed a magician to conjure up other worlds, and Mr. Watts had become that magician. When we needed a savior, Mr.Watts had filled that role. When the redskins required a life, Mr. Watts had given himself.” **


 * //__Mister Pip__// **
 * //Lloyd Jones//, //p. 244-245// **



"To those of us who knew the pain of valentines that never came and those whose names were never called when choosing sides for basketball It was long ago and far away The world was younger than today when dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me"

//"At Seventeen" lyrics by Janis Ian//




 * "This soul's escaping, through this hole that it's gaping**
 * This world is mine for the taking**
 * Make me king, as we move toward a, new world order**
 * A normal life is boring, but superstardom's close to post mortem"**


 * //"Lose Yourself" lyrics by Eminem//**



"Cause sometimes you feel tired, feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse"

//"Till I Collapse" lyrics by Eminem//

"Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How perfect if that were true." //__The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society__ Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows//